Motion avatars

Rooster · September 27, 2011, 12:07am

Bob McCown said:
I would hope that the purpose of this site is not to annoy or bother other members. Maybe everyone needs to examine why you’re posting what you’re posting.

1…Not me !! 2…I did examine what I have posted in the past and constantly ask myself the same question? Dad (Andy) I have fixed that issue of concern JUST for you and if it bothered you and Jon that much why didn’t you or Jon shoot me an e-mail stating such? Now send me that $20 you owe me !!!

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JRad · September 27, 2011, 1:07am

OK - Right click on image an check “Block all images from nnn” Works like a champ Caterpillar is DEAD.

Dave - Like the man said, it’s no big deal when included in a post, but when prolific posters put it annoying images in their signatures or avatars it is retro-active to every post you ever made and makes the forum very hard to read.

Thank you and Steve for dropping the bug. It was funny at first, but got old fast.

Edit to add I was waiting to see if you tired of it before it drove me completely nuts

Rooster · September 27, 2011, 1:15am

Sorry…
I’ll be in my corner as Jon hurt my feelings! For once it ain’t Ken that has done so!
It’s all good… (except for Andy as it’s all his fault and I really don’t think Ric pushed him that many times)!

snowshoe · September 27, 2011, 1:18am

Its ok rooster i didnt mind it. I actually liked it. Must b something wrong with us kids. Lol

AndyC · September 27, 2011, 1:47am

Son, I don’t mind the moving avatars once in a while in a reply, I just don’t think they needed to be in the ““Signature”” block, so they show up everytime… And, you weren’t the only one… (and Ric never really pushed me, but I had to blame someone, and he was close)…

Ken_Brunt · September 27, 2011, 9:13am

How did I get involved in this? I’m just sitting here, minding my own business…

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AndyC · September 27, 2011, 12:51pm

Ken Brunt said:
How did I get involved in this? I’m just sitting here, minding my own business…

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It was Roosters fault…

Ken_Brunt · September 27, 2011, 12:52pm

Figgers…

John_Bouck · September 27, 2011, 1:49pm

Doesn’t bother me at all.

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VicSmith · September 27, 2011, 2:20pm

Whats the problem? I like them I think they are fun and I want one so far my favorite

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Hans-Joerg_Mueller · September 27, 2011, 2:43pm

Oh man …

ahhhh I almost forgot, Kindergarten and School started last week. Must be the exitement of all the new ideas the kids bring home.

Mik · September 27, 2011, 3:27pm

If they really add something to the message, that can’t be done in another way, then it’s good. If they ARE the message or detract from it… not so much. They’re a lot like non-sequiturs… generally only “really funny” to the poster and his closest immature buddies.

Kim’s niece is epileptic. One of her friends thought it was a good idea to send her this cutesy gif with strobe effects… with predictable results

On one business’ page there was this macro that produced a message tailing from your cursor. When you moved the mouse it followed… like a snake… to reassemble again when you stopped. It definitely cost him one customer.

There’s a poster on another board who uses multiples in every post… they’re almost as irritating as his attitude.

Some of them eat more memory and therefore bandwidth than they should. And some come from sites that install nice bits of spyware, rootkits or trojans when you browse for them…

To me they’re pretty much like putting a big tattoo and piercings in the middle of your face (just to say “look at me!!!”)… But who am I to criticize your ‘freedom of expression’?